Author Archives: John McKenna

Bulletin 3rd February 2013. 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Masses this week   Prayers of the Church Week 4 Saturday 6.30pm Sunday 8.30am 10.30am Margaret Heys Monday 9.15am Private Intention Tuesday 9.15am Catherine & Leo Crook Wednesday 9.15am Special Intention Thursday 9.15am William & Florence Nickson Friday 9.15am Saturday … Continue reading

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Lent

Lent begins on Wednesday 13th February Ash Wednesday is the clarion call to “Repent and believe the gospel” (Mk 1:15). For the next forty days, the faithful willingly submit to fasting and self-denial in imitation of Our Lord’s forty-day fast … Continue reading

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A Minutes of Parish Community Council Meeting – 10th January 2013

A Minutes of Parish Community Council Meeting – 10th January 2013 St. Bede’s Presbytery  1)    Present: Father Michael O’Neill, Duncan McGrath, Terry King, Adrian Dugdale, Brenda Hardacre, Pat Berry, Aidan Ormisher, John McKenna 2)    Apologies – were received from Mary … Continue reading

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Bulletin 27th January 2013. 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

27th January 2013. 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Masses this week   Prayers of the Church Week 3 Saturday 6.30pm Joan Finch Sunday 8.30am 10.30am Monday 9.15am Private Intention Tuesday 10.00am Funeral Mass Margaret Heys Wednesday 9.15am Stella Newton Thursday … Continue reading

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Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time Last Sunday was the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, this marked the return, in the liturgical calendar, of that period known as Ordinary Time. What is Ordinary Time? The rhythm of the liturgical seasons reflects the rhythm of … Continue reading

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Redefinition of Marriage

Article reproduced with kind permission of Catholic Culture.Org  http://www.catholicculture.org/ Redefinition of Marriage Would you ever have suspected that France would be the Western country where popular opposition to the redefinition of marriage finally coalesced? The momentum toward legal recognition of … Continue reading

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PCC Outline

ThePCC was set up after a series of meetings in 2006 generated by the Liverpool Archdiocesan initiative, ‘Leaving Safe Harbours’. This initiative reflected the hard truth that there are not enough priests to cover all the parishes in the Archdiocese … Continue reading

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